On the 15th of February, Centro Fermi participated in Rai 3 TV programme “Geo&Geo” as a scientific partner of PolarQuest2018 project, an extreme expedition with an ecological sail boat addressing several scientific topics: from historical heritage rescues to geographical survey and fundamental Physics. During the show Paola Catapano, CERN scientific journalist, was interviewed, explaining that PolarQuest expedition on board of “Nanuq” will sail, from July to September, towards the North Pole looking for “Dirigibile Italia”, 90 years after the historical unfortunate expedition of Umberto Nobile in 1928. The expedition will host on board several scientific research activities: one of those will search for microplastic dispersion in the Artic Sea, tiny granules produced by mechanical degradation and biological activity and able to enter into the metabolism of microorganisms and to harm the whole food chain up to the humans. Centro Fermi, in the context of the Extreme Energy Events Project (EEE), will install on the boat a cosmic ray detector providing the first measurements at latitudes above the 80 degrees north. Two twin detectors will be installed in a Norwegian and an Italian school, allowing a simultaneous comparison between the cosmic ray fluxes measured across a span of almost 40 degrees in latitude. During the TV programme, Centro Fermi made available a portable detector, named “Cosmic Box” and built by the students from Istituto Tecnico Amedeo Avogadro, in Torino, with the guide of dr. Ivan Gnesi and prof. Fabrizio Pusceddu, within the EEE Project. These didactic version of the PolarQuest detector have been already used by students and teachers, recently for measuring the cosmic ray flux variation as a function of the altitude during a Workshop dedicated to the EEE students. (The students of the EEE project at Erice: cosmic ray hunters – News – Video)